Merge pull request #2625 from cython/str_is_str_gh25650.29rc1

Add a new directive 'str_is_str=True'

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/Options.py b/Cython/Compiler/Options.py
index a113f7182..966d282ed 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/Options.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/Options.py
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ _directive_defaults = {
     'iterable_coroutine': False,  # Make async coroutines backwards compatible with the old asyncio yield-from syntax.
     'c_string_type': 'bytes',
     'c_string_encoding': '',
+    'str_is_str': None,  # fall back to 'language_level == 2'
     'type_version_tag': True,  # enables Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG on extension types
     'unraisable_tracebacks': True,
     'old_style_globals': False,
@@ -313,6 +314,7 @@ directive_types = {
     'freelist': int,
     'c_string_type': one_of('bytes', 'bytearray', 'str', 'unicode'),
     'c_string_encoding': normalise_encoding_name,
+    'str_is_str': bool,
 }
 
 for key, val in _directive_defaults.items():
@@ -347,6 +349,7 @@ directive_scopes = {  # defaults to available everywhere
     # Avoid scope-specific to/from_py_functions for c_string.
     'c_string_type': ('module',),
     'c_string_encoding': ('module',),
+    'str_is_str': ('module',),
     'type_version_tag': ('module', 'cclass'),
     'language_level': ('module',),
     # globals() could conceivably be controlled at a finer granularity,